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Hartford – Today, State Senator Art Linares
(R-33) testified before the legislature’s Public Health Committee
encouraging passage of legislation to create a maternity mortality
review committee within the Department of Public Health.
It is Raised Bill 304, An Act Establishing A Maternity Mortality Review Committee Within The Department Of Public Health.

“The United States has the highest maternal
mortality rate among industrialized countries. One organization
estimated that 23.5 mothers die for every 100,000 births,” Sen. Linares
said. “This information is, and should be shocking. While
the rates of mothers dying before, during, or after birth have been
dropping in other nations, between 1990 and 2015, it has gone up 56
percent in the United States.”

Sen. Linares said that epidemiologists credit poor
record keeping as both the reason better numbers are not available and
the reason the rates have risen so dramatically.

“The key to understanding and improving the
maternal mortality rate is better record keeping,” he said, adding that
Connecticut does not have an established method for tracking the number
of and reason for maternal deaths.

“As has happened in other countries, the collection
and assessment of maternal mortality data will help identify reasons
for the deaths. This data can then be used to identify and implement
health care measures that can be taken to prevent
future maternal deaths,” Sen. Linares said. “Pregnancy and the birth of
a child should be a happy, healthy occasion for both mother and child.
To that end, we must give the health care community every available
means to achieve that. I hope you will agree
with me that Raised Bill 304 can aid this endeavor and that the
committee approves passage of this legislation.”

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